Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
Ver. 8. Also when I cry and shout.] As poor prisoners use to do for relief and release.
He shutteth out my prayer.] Or, Shutteth his ear to my prayer. This was very grievous to any good heart; more than it could be to Cicero, a stranger to the true God, who yet bewaileth the matter to his brother in these words, I would pray to the gods for those things; but that, alas! they have given over to hear my prayers.